Young artist to play Symphonie Espagnole
Young artist to play Symphonie Espagnole
By: Gayel Pitchford
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Posted by editor Tue Nov 30, 1999 00:00:00 PST
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0 responses 0 comments The Tehachapi Community Orchestra’s 2006 Young Artist winner, violinist Cecilia Lay of Bakersfield, will perform Victor Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole with the orchestra at its next concert on Sunday, May 14 in the Jacobsen Middle School Cafeteria. Downbeat for the performance is 4 p.m.
Sixteen-year-old Lay is an emotionally explosive player, who beat out a number of talented musicians to win the orchestra’s annual Young Artist Competition.
The intensity of Lalo’s stirring composition showcases her outstanding technique and dramatic presentation.
Lay is just completing the 11th grade at Stockdale High School, where she plays in the school orchestra. She also plays in the Bakersfield Youth Symphony and the Kern County Honors Orchestra. She has studied violin for 10 years and is currently taking lessons from Jean Dodson of the Bakersfield Symphony. In addition to the performance opportunity with the orchestra, Lay will receive a $500 music scholarship, funded by Bank of the Sierra.
To round out the program, the orchestra will perform Richard Wagner’s Sigfried Idylls and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s romantic piece, Scheherazade.
All the music on this concert is from the Romantic Period and since the concert falls on Mother’s Day, it is a perfect opportunity to take mom to hear the Tehachapi Community Orchestra perform. In keeping with the orchestra’s long-standing tradition of free classical music for all residents of the community, this concert will be presented free to the public.
For more information, call Concertmaster Gayel Pitchford at 821-7511.
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